MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—-Press Association.— Copyright.)

Mr Winston Churchill denies that he looped the loop in a mononlano at Sheerness.

" Advices recoivod in Borlui from Bolivia state that Baron Erland Nordenekjold is safe, but that Indians murdered his companion.

Mr Chas. Reade, organiser of the Australasian town-planning tour, leaves Sydney for Now Zealand by the Maunganui on Saturday. The Commonwealth Government has placed an order for 'a submarine depot ship with John Brown and Company, Clydebank. . 3ladamo Mclba sails for Australia by the Orsova. She remains m Australia until January. Nothing has been definitely settled regarding her grand opera season. "

A "Times" and "Sydney S.un" service cablegram states that the London Chamber of Commerce has withdrawn its support of the Empire trademark, desiring to remain neutral *n the matter.

Replying to an appeai by unemployed Mr Border the Canadian Prime Minister, declared that the policy of the Government was to restrict immigration as ranch as possible to farm labourers and agriculturists.

In connexion with tho £10,000 jewellery robbery at Cairo, the Superintendent of Poli'co at Sydney is of tho opmion that tho perpetrators wero/three well-known "crooks" who left Australia recently. Tho Now South Wales police warn the public that ns a largo number of letters aro arriving regarding foreign sweepstakes, the Customs have decided to collect duty on all tickets from outside sources.

Mr Roosevelt is en route for homo. Hβ is completely recovered from a serious illness following, ap operation for a wound to his leg received by trying to save a conoe iv a river rapid during his exploration expedition.

Mr L. Harcourt. in opening tho Victoria League's.health exhibition at the Imperial Institute, said ho envied the overseas people with their greator^space and smaller populations, and their opportunity of dealing with social problems. Infantilo mortality was lower in the Dominions than in the Homeland, but tho latter was steadily improving in this respect. Mr E. Harding, of Auckland, who is studying agricultural methods in Canada.* in an interview fit Ottawa, eaid that tho thing that most struck him in Western Canada was the farmers' indifforence to their homes. Their barns were fine, handsome buildings, but their homes wero plain, wooden structures. Mr Harding found little to comparo in New Zealand and Canadian farming methods owing to the- long Canadian winter.